(Trans)formations of Sexualities and Gender selves
in the last twenty-five years in Britain and Spain
25-27 October 1999

Convocatoria: We would like to re-examine how in the last quarter of
the century European thought has undermined the assumptions of stable identities, stable
bodies and stable sexual selves, and how Literature, the Media and the Arts in Britain and
Spain have contributed to (or resisted) the concept of gender as a construction and
performance. Papers discussing one or several of the following topics will be welcome,
either from a theoretical perspective or interpreting literary or artistic works:

Revisiting theories of sex and gender Dominant discourses and the
construction of gender Discussing power and sex The need of a different cultural symbolic
order to define new gender identities Listening to silences, seeing erasures and crossing
the gaps between experience and representation in dominant discourses Identity as
narration. Constructing subjectivity and reclaiming desire, emotional life, feelings and
the erotic The representation of gay and lesbian love and friendship (A selection of the
papers will be published)